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Those visiting New York

City gather for a group

picture. Not everyone

who went on the trip was

a communications major.

Bible majors, biology ma­

jors, business majors, and

music majors were some

of the majors represented

on the group. Spring trips

Jon Hicks plays the trum­

pet. The orchestra visited

four schools and three

churches within a five day

time period.

Bethany Kaplan and

Sarah Beth Peterson both

perform on stringed instru

ments in the orchestra.

riding on the coast of a foreign land

or golfing on the side of a mountain

in a foreign country. For some forty

Clearwater students, however, these

dreams and others came true. They

The orchestra enjoys a meal

together while on tour. Dr. spent ten days in Ireland, starting in

Nichols, the orchestra con­ Dublin, traveling to Sligo, and end­

ductor, is much loved by his

students. He and his wife, ing in Galway. They visited many

Nancy, have been shining museums and were able to get a peek

examples in their faith and

in their marriage, and they into the lives of some of the great

will be sorely missed as

they follow God's guiding Irish writers, such as William But­

and move onward in their ler Yeats, James Joyce, Nora Barnacle

calling. Of Dr. Nichols, Joy

Wasmundt said, "When he and others. William Shakespeare's

conducts, he shows his passion and love for music. He "Julius Caesar" was seen in the Ab­

transfers his love to us and because of him, my love for

music has grown more than I could imagine." bey Theatre in Dublin.